Miles to date: 266
Money to date: $5,350

Take a look at that again, it is not a type, Five Thousand Three Hundred and Fifty Dollars. That is a ton of money. So how did it happen?

March 5th I held my fundraiser at the Vault and it went better than I could ever have possibly hoped for. Thank you to everyone who came out and donated, it is greatly appreciated and with your help I was able to surpass my goal of $5,000. Additionally, thank you to all the companies and individuals who donated items for the raffle and door prizes. I can not express my gratitude to everyone enough.

All the fundraising aside, there has also been some serious logging of miles going on. The day of the fundraiser I ran a rainy 15 miles with a few members of the MGH marathon team. We ran along the marathon route and it was a pleasant run. Since there were so few of us, we spaced out pretty quickly but all the other runners on the course made it enjoyable.

I have been putting off changing over to new running shoes. I get oddly sentimental about putting a pair of shoes down (I'm even talking about them like they're a pet), and I kept avoiding it last week until it was too late, as I did not want to start using them for the long runs. Lesson here, as always, is that I am an idiot.

This past weekend called for 18 miles, my longest run to date. Due to various scheduling conflicts I had to do the run on Sunday and chose to do it as early in the morning as possible which meant I was heading out by my lonesome.

Considering I did the majority of my training for the Cape Cod Marathon by myself, long solo runs do not bother me too much. That being said, 18 miles is a long time to run solo. Meghan was kind enough to meet me at mile 6 with a few refreshments, which was a huge help, but that was one hour in, leaving me with just under two hours remaining.

The run went well, I finished in about 2:50 and did not feel too awful. Don't get me wrong, I felt like crap, but it went away quickly enough. Looking at a bit of a step back week with "only" 14 miles on tap for the weekend.

Keep on keepin' on.